"Winter Break" starts Dec. 13 for Napa schools, and most of the kids can't wait!

In 2007, the Register launched a feature that has highlighted the lives of hundreds of heretofore unsung Napans.

Nothing could better illustrate the deplorable condition of the California education system than the continuing furor over Proposition 8.

Have any of you taken on the challenge of getting out on the newest half-mile racing straight-away in Solano County?

Major action stirred in California’s longest running battle last week, with the proposal to break ground by 2011 on a so-called peripheral canal to bring a reliable supply of fresh water to millions of people and farms in Northern California.

Dear editor,Community Resources for Children is very grateful to the staff at Peet’s in Bel Aire Plaza for choosing CRC to be the recipient of their Christmas matching fund donation.

Dear editor, The city of Napa Senior Center staff and seniors would like to send a huge thank you to Napa County Transportation and Planning Agency and Veolia for another wonderful Holiday Light Tour. We would be remiss if we didn’t mention our wonderful drivers and helpers: Max, Larue, Ernestine, Kenny, Homer and Carol.

Dear editor, We at Home Instead Senior Care would like to thank Longs Drugs, Meals on Wheels of Napa Valley, Rohlffs/Concordia Memorial Manor, Napa Valley Senior Services, Napa Nursing Center and Golden Living Center, and all the volunteers and shoppers who helped make our holiday community service program, Be a Santa to a Senior, such a success.

These are my favorite books for this year, in no particular order. I have my own particular standards, which include the fact that I hardly read fiction any more so these are all non fiction. Also, they may not have original publishing dates of 2008 but are all recent and I read them myself this year.

Do you clean out closets before the holidays or wait until after?

Here is your chance to sound off on any topic that is not covered today by a Register.com article/opinion item.